Another Day

This morning I will be spending another day in Peds ENT with Dr. Arnold.  Time in Peds is very different from spending time with adults by process, energy and end goal.  Almost everything I've ever watched in Peds is tonsillectomy which is interesting the first few times, watching the bovine pen direction and then seeing the inflamed fleshy kidney shaped mass removed, however, with multiple tonsillectomies in one day and spending 4 or 5 total days watching them, they get very old, methodical and boring.  Part of what being a surgeon entails is being methodical and muscle memory, that much I have gathered.  But the part I hesitate with in Peds is how tedious the same task so often can be.  In Adult ENT, there are similar procedures but always different histories, lifestyles, diseases, mental states, largely varying ages and surgical histories.  There is also a larger field to work with which provides more room to work and brings more people into the room to assist with the often more involved cases.  Ultimately, this helps me decide that I do not want to go into surgical pediatric care which is very helpful.  And fortunately, this is my last day in Peds so from here to the end should be interesting and appealing.